8 Profiling

• Profiling introduction: What is profiling useful for?
• Building profiled applications: How to enable profiling.
• Creating profiles: How to create profile data.
• Using mprof for time profiling: How to analyze the time performance of a program with mprof.
• Using mprof for profiling memory allocation How to analyze the memory performance of a program with mprof.
• Using mprof for profiling memory retention How to analyze what memory is on the heap.
• Using mdprof: How to analyze the time and/or memory performance of a program with mdprof.
• Using threadscope: How to analyse the parallel execution of a program with threadscope.
• Profiling and shared libraries: Profiling dynamically linked executables.